Inmate Found Stabbed To Death

June 13, 1992

Stateville prison officials put the correctional facility on lockdown after an inmate was found dead in his cell Friday.

Ronald Lewis, 25, a Stateville prisoner since March, was found in his bed at 1:30 p.m. with multiple stab wounds in the chest in Cell House B East. He was declared dead several minutes later, said Nic Howell, a Department of Corrections spokesman.

Lewis, a South Side resident, was serving a 5-year sentence, 3 years for burglary and 2 years for violating bail. He was scheduled for release in December 1993.

Howell said investigators from the Department of Corrections will begin their search for a weapon in the killing and suspects Saturday in the cell house, which holds 360 inmates.